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Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by CamperBob2 »

WD-42 wrote: post #228
CamperBob2 wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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So you really couldn't figure out what "Super key" meant, even with context? I feel like you are being hyperbolic. This isn't magical hidden Linux knowledge. Honestly, if not being able to find what applications you have running, and not even trying pressing the large button on your keyboard with the windows logo on it was so traumatizing, you might want to just avoid Linux entirely.

No, I didn't realize that the "Super key" was the Windows key, and no, I didn't think to try it. I never use the Windows key myself, because it's never needed. I'm either in a DOS or PS box, or if I'm working at the desktop, the taskbar gives me all the affordances I need including a 'Type here to search' box.

Key point is that I don't want to press any keys to maintain my awareness of what's running on the machine. Processes with windows associated with them should always be apparent in one way or another. Ubuntu got the less-useful part of the taskbar right -- the quick-launch icons on the column at left -- while failing to do the important thing, which is to show, well, tasks.

I remember when they first started putting Windows keys on keyboards. If you think AI pisses people off, LOL... you weren't reading Slashdot and other Linux-adjacent sites when those keys started showing up. It's amusing to see that they've been embraced (if not extended) by the haters.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by giancarlostoro »

lowbloodsugar wrote: post #182
giancarlostoro wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know they don't do it due to fragmentation, but things like appimage do exist.

Genuine question: how does that help?

I've used various Linux distros, and if I see an appimage, I usually download those, and they usually just work.

Apparently Linus Torvalds liked AppImage too.

https://archive.ph/PSqlB

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by iknowstuff »

olivierestsage wrote: post #207
splwjs wrote: post #142

What's the market for linux users who want an electron app so they can vibecode in a visual studio fork but wont just build it themselves nor do they want to clone and build someone else's repo

No horse in this race because I don’t want a Claude app, but the median Linux user is increasingly just a normal person who doesn’t want spying telemetry or ads or whatever

The median linux pc user is on Chrome OS from their school :p

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by 999900000999 »

kobalsky wrote: post #203
999900000999 wrote: post #184

Which Linux. You build it for Ubuntu , people will demand fedora. Build fedora they’ll want Arch. This is fine for FOSS projects where the community can fork and contribute, but as a company I can imagine tons of support tickets coming from Linux users who’s particularly DE/Distro permutation isn’t working right. Still. An App Image would be nice

So your argument is "if you give a mouse a cookie"? There are plenty of companies and they just throw us a deb and we do the rest. And even if it were a valid point, why would eye even waste a second of your life argumenting against Linux when it's being asked to a company with a projected 1 trillion dollars IPO. What's your stake here?

The top comment large agrees with me. Your support matrix becomes too vast.

However, I do think an app image or I guess a flatpak would be nice.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by giancarlostoro »

splwjs wrote: post #142

What's the market for linux users who want an electron app so they can vibecode in a visual studio fork but wont just build it themselves nor do they want to clone and build someone else's repo

Not sure, but I would happily take half the pay of any developer at Anthropic to do that role for them if it gets me Claude Desktop on my Linux box, I do not like third party hacks of Windows Electron apps made to work on Linux, always makes me uncomfortable.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by giancarlostoro »

iknowstuff wrote: post #244
olivierestsage wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No horse in this race because I don’t want a Claude app, but the median Linux user is increasingly just a normal person who doesn’t want spying telemetry or ads or whatever

The median linux pc user is on Chrome OS from their school :p

I presume they meant if you filter out for Chrome and Android ;)

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by giancarlostoro »

shanewei wrote: post #3

What do you miss from the Desktop app that the CLI doesn’t cover? I’m mostly on Linux too and have just been using the CLI, so I’m curious.

For one thing, the Desktop app lets me control any remote sessions I have open via the Code functionality.

Re: Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

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Post by jjice »

prmoustache wrote: post #249

You got to love the irony of seeing hundred of users not being able to actually build a desktop version themselves using the cli agent. Are LLMs rendering people that useless?

I avoided it after Anthropic's rampage against `claude -p` to stop Openclaw and didn't want to get hit in the crossfire. It was hard to follow their back and forth, but it seems that's done now?
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